Bluff by Danez Smith
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2024 Troubador musical and nostalgic' Nikesh Shukla'Whether

musical and nostalgic' Nikesh Shukla'Whether recalling his parents' deaths or celebrating the art of the mixtape

succinct examination and lucid awareness of what it means to be human

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Bluff by Danez Smith<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2024</b> Troubador musical and nostalgic' Nikesh Shukla'WhetherWritten during the time the world came to a halt due to the COVID 19 pandemic, and Minneapolis became the epicentre of protest following the murder of George Floyd, Bluff is Danez Smiths powerful reckoning with their responsibility as a poet and with their hometown. Smith brings a startling urgency to these poems, their questions demanding a new language, new textual shapes and a deep self scrutiny. Ars poetica gives way to 'ars america'. A